You are invited to the Book Launch of “Faces, Places, Emotional Spaces” an Anthology by the “Dome Poets”, a subsidiary group of Geelong Writers Inc.
** Saturday 20th May
** 2.00 pm til 4.00 pm
** Boronggook Library, Drysdale
** 2-8 Wyndham St, Drysdale
RSVP, here, or SMS me on 0437278888
Attached Below: One of my Poems (From 10) in the Athology
Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
In response to Eugi’s Moonwashed Musings Photo Prompt: Skyline … To visit her fabulous site please click on >> Here
Lines To Nowhere (Revised)
As my drapes fell apart
I saw a setting eclipse
And I decided to walk
To the south side of the moon
Carrying my plastic spoon
There, a giant vanilla cheesecake
Rolled over the crusty moonscape
On a giant crumbly base
Topped with blueberries and cream
Laying here in bed, life is but a dream
The midnight skyline begins to drool
Am I a full moon’s fool?
I will meet you at our old school
Down by the empty pool
This time we will not be ridiculed
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Be a Domino (a Tanka)
Assistance aids all
The receiver grows stronger
The giver gains love
Together, friendships thrive
Join the domino effect
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Mom’s birthday and Carole’s birthday were not far apart, and appropriately they enjoyed a very close relationship …
Today is my mother’s birthday, and next Sunday is Mothersday, and coincidently, today was also Carole’s funeral day … Here is my tribute to those 2 magnificent women in my life…
My Women
After I had left the hem
Without women
I could not have survived my time
I would not have braved the climb
Ladies you were my rhyme
My mothers of thyme
Helping me roll away the stone
Maintaining these old bones
Repairing the bridges, I had burnt
Reciting the messages, I had learnt
Cheering from the sidelines
Supporting my broken designs
Women of my rhymes
Mothers for a lifetime
Ivor Steven (c) May 9th 2023
Darkness folds into
Eyes that do not hear the sounds
Of homeless spirits
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Once again thank you to Susi, >>https://iwriteher.com/2023/04/26/reflections-revelations-has-published/ for selecting my poems in her outstanding Anthology, “Reflections and Revelations, The Short of It, Vol 2” … Today I am presenting the second page (33) of my pieces from her fascinating Collection of Short poems and prose … which I have scanned directly from copy of the anthology and attached below …
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Yesterday
Was one of those days
At lunchtime
I went to the Box Office Cafe
I forgot
And left without paying
For my coffee and cake
In the afternoon
I had a doctor’s appointment
I forgot
And left without paying
For the Fee at reception
After Dinner
I caught a bus into town
I forgot
That the ‘open mic’ night
Occurs on the second Thursday of each month
This morning
I watch the sunshine
Flickering on her handmade curtains
I remember
And I relight her candle again
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Today’s ‘Throwback Friday’ poem is from my remembrance week a year ago
“Below; I have formed one poem out of four Senryu that I wrote this morning, and I have many fractured thoughts within my soul, a decade after Carole’s passing on May 3rd 2012 at 1.15pm …“
Today’s Fragments (Revised)
(A four Senryu poem)
I am who I am
I can’t be another man
She’s my hologram
I sat beside her
Next to yesterday’s campfire
Embers in the wind
A red flame flickers
Above her celestial star
My eternal light
On my island home
Sea mist falls across my arms
Completion awaits
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
A special poem I wrote, after I’d taken my Lady to hospital for the last time, on the day of her 65th birthday, eleven years ago. Hello Carole, and I wonder if you still wonder that I wonder, about wandering on your celestial star…….
Under The Snow.
We emanate to a birthday.
We deflate to a final day.
Birthdays, they all come, they all go.
Birthdays, in the sunshine, under the snow.
Birthdays, slow to mature, quickly an aeon.
Birthdays, before we are born, after we are gone.
Birthdays, hanging on by a breath.
Birthdays, nailed to a cross ’til death.
What’s it all mean to be alive and cry.
What’s it all mean to live and to die.
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Ivor Steven (c) May 4th 2023
Today, May 3rd, is the eleventh Anniversary of Carole’s passing
Here I Am, Eleven Years On
here I am shuffling on
the same old yellow brick road
that I wandered on eleven years ago
here I am running from
the same old dark storm
that I escaped from eleven years ago
here I am blushing under
the same old halfmoon
that I sheltered under eleven years ago
here I am dreaming about
the same old red head
that I dreamed about eleven years ago
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Perceptions is Now Available via:
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Ivor Steven (c) May 3rd 2023
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